And what's the threshold for notability? It's entirely possible that someone is well known in a certain circle but that circle isn't in the public zeitgeist, but if you join that circle you would know of that person.

I mean, I can guess if you have a public persona then at a minimum that should be worthy of something - if your neighbor is like everyone else who keeps to themselves then yeah, they don't get a wikipedia page. But if you're a public performer and have done something in public you are notable for, then having that would be worthy of inclusion. If nothing more than just your public facing persona.

Like Xav's page would have his parents listed (both are public notable personas), and details on his music, but I would expect the rest of it to not be documented because that would likely be private information. But it would be a useful detail if someone were to ask "Is Xav related to Justin?".(It's a question worth asking, given Justin's rather public dates with Katy Perry)

Yeah, I fully expect that Trump - and especially his family members is profiting on these platforms by leveraging their inside knowledge about events for which the timing is under Trump's own control.

Kalshi hired Trump Jr. as a strategic advisor earlier this year.

We can all guess why.

It's starting to be if it's worse if a party (CCP) does it, or if the leader's family does it. After all, the top Chinese companies have a CCP member in an executive level position. The top US companies have a Trump family member doing the same thing.

Agreed. If you don't know what you're doing it's hard to even ask for the right thing or know what's possible. For example: I'm currently developing a system that uses a local AI to help debug internal issues. The initial incarnations of it were very slow to start up each command; clearly, it wasn't doing proper KV caching and was having to prefill every turn; it required patches on the llama.cpp fork and our API wrapper, and also adjusting the system prompt to keep variable content at the end. But if you have no idea about KV caching issues, how do you even know something is wrong with the backend, let alone what to tell the AI to fix? You'll end up deciding you need to upgrade the GPU instead.

(That said: "lovingly handcrafted" code is a hilarious phrase that should give any developer who's ever worked on a big corporate software project the giggles, and also, these software devs are clearly people angry at knowing they're going to be let go looking for revenge by badmouthing their boss to the press)

Well, firstly I had a “follow only” feed when I quit Twitter in 2022 - I just want that for Reddit.

There were short periods when Twitter tried to make the algorithmic feed the default, but they always switched back to your personal feed being the default after outcry. So Musk hasnt fixed anything there, it was always there.

Secondly, no, I wont be using Twitter ever again. Or whatever its called these days.

Their current feed on mobile is a mix of stuff you follow and stuff they think you are interested in based on posts you interact with.

Which basically means that you are shit scared to interact with anything that isnt from a group you have already joined, because once you do, your feed is filled with posts from subs that are minutely related to the topic you clicked on.

For example, if I click on a post which contains an interesting local event story without checking what sub its from, and its from a local town or county sub from the US I soend the next week tellingReddit I really dont want posts from every fucking state, county, town or village specific sub in the US.

Or I click on a story about an interesting car event without realising the story was posted in a car specific sub, for the next week Im getting rid of every car related sub in my feed.

Right now Im doing this for UK home improvement and DIY subs, because I dared look at a specific story. Im getting recommended shit like home made pizza oven subs

My biggest method of interaction with Reddit by far, is telling Reddit what I dont want. And one single accidental click can result in hours or days of shitty mildly related content being forced on you.

All I want is Twitters feed from before 2022 - the one which just shows posts from people or groups you follow, and thats it. Why cant I have that?

Make it so Number One.

It's a disco inferno!

I'm sure I'll get torn apart for this, but there are many cases where the AI mode does a significantly better job of searching, and is much more capable. Recent example:

Every week my son's school sends an email with a list of colleges visiting along with dates and times. My son wants to find schools with a degree in XYZ, which is a bit specialized. I type "Which of these schools have a degree in XYZ?" then hit paste. The AI parses the email (which is formatted for a human and includes irrelevant information about the visit), then produces a bulleted list, with links to the page for that specific degree. That would have taken me 10+ searches. And since each school calls the degree something slightly different, it would take even more.

Escape from Pluto is much easier, and the Pluto-Charon distance is 1/20th of the Earth-Moon distance.

Ignorance, really. The ads for Muse do stuff like asking it to help you shop for gifts and other things, as well as deal with customer service agents if you get wrongly billed.

So it's kind of obvious they gave up the password so the agent could peruse the account charges and then do stuff like challenge them on your behalf.

The way the ad makes it seem is that it happens automatically and takes a few minutes, instead of spending hours on the phone trying to deal with the charges.

So people are being pulled into it simply for the convenience factor.

vim is the reason I had to give on up using a Dvorak keyboard and switch back to Qwerty. It turns out I'm quite capable of typing text in Dvorak, but relearning the muscle-memory for all the different vim operations was a bridge too far :(

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

Yes, but not for you and me. Graphics designers have been using stylus-displays for years and years, because it's great to draw on the thing you are making instead of drawing on a different surface like a Wacom.

But I'm like you, I don't have a use case for a touchscreen and if you touch my notebook screen I'll be angry because I prefer it without fingerprints, thanks. So my first question is: Do they offer this thing with OLED but without touch? I guess not. Pity.

I've been slowly moving towards my dream setup: Solar panels, battery, EV car, island mode capability. This is one thing that'd be a factor in my buying decision. Using your car as a battery or secondary battery is a big plus, and if they built the necessary equipment to run independent of the power grid, it'd come in a neat package.

While power failures are rare where I live, I expect them to become more common with the move to renewable energies. I support that, but it's more fragile than constantly running power stations. So being able to run your home at least for a few hours on your own energy is something that I consider a good idea.

Perhaps, but in this case the real pressure comes from having to justify multiple trillions of dollars of debt, using a technology whose actual scope of applicability is much smaller than you've been leading investors to believe. You can practically see the flop-sweat at this point.